Terence Davies’s Benediction is a perfect portrait of an outsider
In this new biopic of the wartime poet Siegfried Sassoon, Davies beautifully renders, in quasi-autobiography, a life unredeemed.
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Laura Wandel’s Playground is a study on the cruelty of children
The writer-director's first full-length film takes a close look at bullying in a Belgian primary school.
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The Worst Person in the World is an exuberant portrait of a young woman flailing as she approaches 30
The third instalment in Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy is warm and fast-moving, with a whiff of the pop promo about…
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The Phantom of the Open is a very British tribute to failure
Mark Rylance is charming as the golf hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft, but there's not quite enough here to sustain a feature.
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Clio Barnard’s Ava & Ali is an endearing account of an unlikely romance in Bradford
This beautifully shot film is a British love story of two people who are drawn to one another despite their…
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Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II lacks the toxic glamour of the original
This was always intended to be a film in two parts, but the second installment, a Bildungsroman, is a tonal…
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Pablo Larraín’s Spencer is a bone-headed reassessment of Princess Diana
The grand biopic opts for heavy-handed symbolism over any grounding in reality.
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Rose Plays Julie is The Parent Trap with teeth
Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take a familiar long-lost-family story – and add a dark, vengeful twist.
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